Pepler, H. D. C. 1878-1951

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Name (Latin)
Pepler, H. D. C. 1878-1951
Other forms of name
H. D. C. P. (Hilary Douglas Clarke Pepler), 1878-1951
P., H. D. C. (Hilary Douglas Clarke Pepler), 1878-1951
Pepler, Douglas, 1878-1951
Pepler, Harry Douglas Clarke, 1878-1951
Pepler, Hilary, 1878-1951
Date of birth
1878-01-14
Date of death
1951-09-20
Field of activity
Printing
Private presses
Puppet theater
Occupation
Printers
Puppeteers
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 50580516
Wikidata: Q5760944
Library of congress: n 82143124
Sources of Information
  • His The hand press ... 1934:(H.D.C. Pepler)
  • His Nisi Dominus, 1919:t.p. (H.D.C.P.)
  • Justice and the child, 1915:t.p. (Douglas Pepler)
  • New Encycl. Britannica, under Gill, Arthur Eric Rowton(in 1915 Gill founded St. Dominic's Press with H.D.C. (Douglas) Pepler)
  • Gill, E. In petra, 1923:t.p. (Hilary Pepler, T.O.S.D. [Tertiary of the Order of St. Dominic])
  • Oxford DNB online, 29 Aug. 2008(Pepler, Harry Douglas Clarke [Hilary]; printer and puppeteer; born 14 Jan. 1878 in Eastbourne, Sussex; in 1904 married Clara Lilian Whiteman, she was known as Clare, and called him Douglas; he converted to the Roman Catholic faith, and when he was baptized in 1916, he officially took the name Hilary, by which he was thereafter known; Hilary Pepler died 20 Sept. 1951)
  • BL auth. file, 29 Aug. 2008(hdg.: Pepler, Hilary)
Wikipedia description:

Hilary "Harry" Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951) was an English printer, writer and poet. He was an associate of both Eric Gill and G. K. Chesterton, working on publications in which they had an interest. He was also a founder with Gill and Desmond Chute in 1920 of a Catholic community of craftsmen at Ditchling, Sussex, called The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic.

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